Is PK an anti-Hindu movie?

To understand PK’s orientation, let’s consider both its content and its intent.

In its content, PK satirizes all the primary religions of India. Still, most of its potshots are directed towards Hinduism. Does this indicate that it is anti-Hindu? Not necessarily. Every movie is targeted to a particular market. Since India’s majority religion is Hinduism, an Indian movie critiquing religion will naturally focus on Hinduism. So, PK’s preoccupation with Hinduism could well be due to a commercial agenda, not an anti-Hindu agenda.

Going to its intent, PK’s producing team have stated that they wanted to make a satire on godmen. As we can’t know their heart, let’s assume for objectivity’s sake that their stated intent was their actual intent and examine whether that intent is accurately reflected in PK’s content.

PK depicts all religious rituals and teachers negatively – there’s no positive depiction at all of anything religious. Even a cursory observation of religion will show that there are many different kinds of religious teachers.

Conniving godmen like Tapasvi definitely exist, but also existing are genuine saintly people who strive to love God and share that love with others. Just as self-interested exploiters exist in every other human field, they exist in religion too. But selfless saints devoted to God also exist – as do serious seekers striving for similar selflessness and devotion. If a newspaper reported only the negative elements in a field, we would be justified to conclude that it had an agenda of not just exposing those elements, but of denigrating the entire field. Unfortunately, PK from beginning to end portrays an unbalanced, uni-dimensional, uncharitable picture of religion.

So, whatever PK’s professed intent, in content it comes out as anti-religion.